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After several long months running some very intense campaigns, when all of the votes were counted last night across Portland and up in Brunswick, where mental health and domestic violence advocate Whitney A. Parrish ran for town council, every single one of the handful of progressive upstart “Bernie-crat” candidates in southern Maine came up short. In […]

Jill Duson Jill Duson, the incumbent in this year’s race for City Council At-Large, has served on Portland’s City Council since 2001, and it’s time for her to go. Duson grew up in Chester, Pennsylvania in the sixties, and after graduating from the local public schools, attended Antioch College where she studied Literature and Political […]

Dear Mr. and Ms. “Blame on ALL Sides”, I know this whole week has been exhausting. It’s been exhausting for me too. Everybody I know is tired. And I know you think you’re being totally reasonable. It’s complicated, you say, the important thing is that we remain on friendly terms with each other despite […]

Welcome to “Explained and Exposed,” a new series I’ll be writing every week, dissecting the truth behind the latest email newsletter that the Trump White House has sent out to its supporters. I encourage you to read the official Trump newsletters for yourself and come to your own conclusions. They’re all available for free public […]

September 11, 2001 was my fifteenth birthday. I remember sitting there in B Block English when our class was interrupted by the news that an airplane had crashed into the World Trade Center. My classmates and I didn’t know what to make of it. Shaken, our teacher turned us back toward our discussion of “Macbeth.” […]

A couple days ago, Cynthia Dill, a well-to-do Cape Elizabeth resident and former state senator, published a rather horrendous editorial in the Portland Press Herald, arguing that “Democrats need to cull the fringe – starting with Bernie Bros.” For the most part, her rant is a snotty rag of entitled condescension, but at the core […]

Although it may come as a surprise to many of the people who follow my writing, a number of my friends voted for Trump. And, to be honest, I don’t necessarily fault them for it. Nobody I knew really denied that Trump was a pig on a personal level, but most of them thought both […]

Today, over two months after the 2016 presidential election came to its horrifying conclusion, American liberals are still reeling from the shock of watching Donald J. Trump, a person most educated people find viscerally repulsive and unprecedentedly terrifying, assume the highest seat possible within our system of government. We’ve now lost both chambers of Congress. In […]

A couple weeks ago, I had the privilege of spending a few days out at the activist encampment in Standing Rock, North Dakota, the primary site of resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), the 1,172-mile-long “black snake” that, if completed, will bring crude oil from the Brakken oil fields all the way to Illinois. […]

In 2000, when Bill Clinton turned the Oval Office over to George W. Bush, he was effectively just passing it back to the same political cohort, and family, that he’d taken it from eight years prior. W’s cabinet even included Nixon’s Chief of Staff from 1970, Donald Rumsfield. As corrupt and violent as Bush was, […]